Use a Source Document

Introduction

The following method allows you to create a PowerPoint presentation using a source document as a starting point. The source document must also be a presentation located in a storage.

API Information

API	Type	Description	Resource
/slides/{name}/fromSource	POST	Creates a new presentation from a source document from a storage.	CreatePresentationFromSource

Request Parameters

Name	Type	Location	Required	Description
name	string	path	true	The file name for the new presentation.
sourcePath	string	query	false	The path to a source presentation.
sourcePassword	string	header	false	The password to open the source presentation.
sourceStorage	string	query	false	The storage name where the source presentation is located.
password	string	header	false	The password to encrypt the new presentation.
folder	string	query	false	The folder path where the new presentation will be located.
storage	string	query	false	The storage name where the new presentation will be located.

In case of Amazon S3 storage folder path starts with Amazon S3 bucket name.

cURL Examples

Create a new presentation Data/Sales.pptx in a Main storage using a presentation template Resources/SalesTemplate.potx.

Request

curl -X POST "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/fromSource?sourcePath=Resources/SalesTemplate.potx&sourceStorage=Main&folder=Data&storage=Main" \
     -H "accept: application/json" \
     -H "authorization: Bearer <access_token>" \
     -H "Content-Length: 0"

Response

{
    "documentProperties": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/documentProperties?folder=Data",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "viewProperties": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/viewProperties?folder=Data",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "slides": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/slides?folder=Data",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "images": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/images?folder=Data",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "layoutSlides": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/layoutSlides?folder=Data",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "masterSlides": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/masterSlides?folder=Data",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "selfUri": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx?folder=Data",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "alternateLinks": [
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/odp?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation",
            "title": "Download as Odp"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/fodp?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation",
            "title": "Download as Fodp"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/ppt?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint",
            "title": "Download as Ppt"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/pdf?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/pdf",
            "title": "Download as Pdf"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/tiff?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "image/tiff",
            "title": "Download as Tiff"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/xps?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument",
            "title": "Download as Xps"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/pps?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint",
            "title": "Download as Pps"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/ppsx?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow",
            "title": "Download as Ppsx"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/pptm?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12",
            "title": "Download as Pptm"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/ppsm?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12",
            "title": "Download as Ppsm"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/pot?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint",
            "title": "Download as Pot"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/potx?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template",
            "title": "Download as Potx"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/potm?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12",
            "title": "Download as Potm"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/otp?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation-template",
            "title": "Download as Otp"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx/html?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "text/html",
            "title": "Download as Html"
        }
    ]
}

SDK Examples

Create a new presentation Data/Sales.pptx in a Main storage using a presentation template Resources/SalesTemplate.potx.

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-dotnet

using System;
using Aspose.Slides.Cloud.Sdk;

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        SlidesApi api = new SlidesApi("MyClientId", "MyClientSecret");

        var response = api.CreatePresentationFromSource(
            "Sales.pptx", "Resources/SalesTemplate.potx", null, null, null, "Data", null);

        Console.WriteLine(response.SelfUri.Href); // https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx?folder=Data
    }
}

Java

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-java

import com.aspose.slides.api.SlidesApi;
import com.aspose.slides.ApiException;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ApiException {
        SlidesApi slidesApi = new SlidesApi("my_client_id", "my_client_key");

        Document response = slidesApi.createPresentationFromSource(
            "Sales.pptx", "Resources/SalesTemplate.potx", null, "Main", null, "Data", "Main");

        System.out.println(response.getSelfUri().getHref()); // https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx?folder=Data
    }
}

PHP

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-php

use Aspose\Slides\Cloud\Sdk\Api\Configuration;
use Aspose\Slides\Cloud\Sdk\Api\SlidesApi;

$configuration = new Configuration();
$configuration->setAppSid("my_client_id");
$configuration->setAppKey("my_client_key");

$slidesApi = new SlidesApi(null, $configuration);

$response = $slidesApi->createPresentationFromSource(
    "Sales.pptx", "Resources/SalesTemplate.potx", null, "Main", null, "Data", "Main");

echo $response->getSelfUri()->getHref(); // https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx?folder=Data

Ruby

# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-ruby

require 'aspose_slides_cloud'

configuration = AsposeSlidesCloud::Configuration.new
configuration.app_sid = "my_client_id"
configuration.app_key = "my_client_key"

slides_api = AsposeSlidesCloud::SlidesApi.new(configuration)

response = slides_api.create_presentation_from_source(
    "Sales.pptx", "Resources/SalesTemplate.potx", nil, "Main", nil, "Data", "Main")

print response.self_uri.href # https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx?folder=Data

Python

# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-python

import asposeslidescloud

from asposeslidescloud.apis.slides_api import SlidesApi

slides_api = SlidesApi(None, "my_client_id", "my_client_key")

response = slides_api.create_presentation_from_source(
    "Sales.pptx", "Resources/SalesTemplate.potx", None, "Main", None, "Data", "Main")

print(response.self_uri.href) # https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx?folder=Data

Node.js

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-nodejs

const cloud = require("asposeslidescloud");

const slidesApi = new cloud.SlidesApi("my_client_id", "my_client_key");

slidesApi.createPresentationFromSource("Sales.pptx", "Resources/SalesTemplate.potx", null, "Main", null, "Data", "Main").then(response => {
    console.log(response.body.selfUri.href); // https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx?folder=Data
});

Android

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-android

import com.aspose.slides.api.SlidesApi;
import com.aspose.slides.ApiException;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ApiException {
        SlidesApi slidesApi = new SlidesApi("my_client_id", "my_client_key");

        Document response = slidesApi.createPresentationFromSource(
            "Sales.pptx", "Resources/SalesTemplate.potx", null, "Main", null, "Data", "Main");

        System.out.println(response.getSelfUri().getHref()); // https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx?folder=Data
    }
}

C++

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-cpp

#include "asposeslidescloud/api/SlidesApi.h"

using namespace utility::conversions;
using namespace asposeslidescloud::api;

int main()
{
    auto slidesApi = std::make_shared<SlidesApi>(to_string_t("my_client_id"), to_string_t("my_client_key"));

    auto response = slidesApi->createPresentationFromSource(
        to_string_t("Sales.pptx"), to_string_t("Resources/SalesTemplate.potx"), 
        utility::string_t(), to_string_t("Main"), utility::string_t(), to_string_t("Data"), to_string_t("Main")).get();

    std::cout << to_utf8string(response->getSelfUri()->getHref()); // https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/Sales.pptx?folder=Data

    return 0;
}

Perl

Swift

SDKs

Using an SDK (API client) is the quickest way for a developer to speed up the development. An SDK takes care of a lot of low-level details of making requests and handling responses and lets you focus on writing code specific to your particular project. Check out our GitHub repository for a complete list of Aspose.Slides Cloud SDKs along with working examples, to get you started in no time. Please check Available SDKs article to learn how to add an SDK to your project.

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